Category: Wired

A Pornhub Chatbot Stopped Millions From Searching for Child Abuse Videos
29
Feb
2024

A Pornhub Chatbot Stopped Millions From Searching for Child Abuse Videos

For the past two years, millions of people searching for child abuse videos on Pornhub’s UK website have been interrupted….

Biden Executive Order Bans Sale of US Data to China, Russia. Good Luck
28
Feb
2024

Biden Executive Order Bans Sale of US Data to China, Russia. Good Luck

US president Joe Biden will sign an executive order on Wednesday aimed at preventing a handful of countries, including China,…

Dictators Used Sandvine Tech to Censor the Internet. The US Finally Did Something About It
28
Feb
2024

Dictators Used Sandvine Tech to Censor the Internet. The US Finally Did Something About It

When the Egyptian government shut down the internet in 2011 to give itself cover to crush a popular protest movement,…

Change Healthcare Ransomware Attack: BlackCat Hackers Quickly Returned After FBI Bust
28
Feb
2024

Change Healthcare Ransomware Attack: BlackCat Hackers Quickly Returned After FBI Bust

Six days before Christmas, the US Department of Justice loudly announced a win in the ongoing fight against the scourge…

The UK Is GPS-Tagging Thousands of Migrants
27
Feb
2024

The UK Is GPS-Tagging Thousands of Migrants

Mark Nelson took the call in an immigration detention center—a place that, to him, felt just like prison. It had…

How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find its Targets—and Vladimir Putin
27
Feb
2024

How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find its Targets—and Vladimir Putin

Most alarmingly, PlanetRisk began seeing evidence of the US military’s own missions in the Locomotive data. Phones would appear at…

How a Right-Wing Controversy Could Sabotage US Election Security
26
Feb
2024

How a Right-Wing Controversy Could Sabotage US Election Security

It remains unclear how many of Warner’s colleagues agree with him. But when WIRED surveyed the other 23 Republican secretaries…

A Vending Machine Error Revealed Secret Face Recognition Tech
25
Feb
2024

A Vending Machine Error Revealed Secret Face Recognition Tech

Canada-based University of Waterloo is racing to remove M&M-branded smart vending machines from campus after outraged students discovered the machines…

A Mysterious Leak Exposed Chinese Hacking Secrets
24
Feb
2024

A Mysterious Leak Exposed Chinese Hacking Secrets

While the documents have now been removed from GitHub, where they were first posted, the identity and motivations of the…

Here Are the Secret Locations of ShotSpotter Gunfire Sensors
23
Feb
2024

Here Are the Secret Locations of ShotSpotter Gunfire Sensors

Finding shell casings can be extremely difficult. A Los Angeles Police Department officer not authorized to speak to the media…

Leak Shows Alarm in Congress Over a Russian ‘Threat’ Is a Real Anomaly
23
Feb
2024

Leak Shows Alarm in Congress Over a Russian ‘Threat’ Is a Real Anomaly

Turner’s press release notably went further than HPSCI’s letter, pressing US president Joe Biden to personally “declassify all information” concerning…

Apple iOS 17.4: iMessage Gets Post-Quantum Encryption in New Update
21
Feb
2024

Apple iOS 17.4: iMessage Gets Post-Quantum Encryption in New Update

Apple is launching its first post-quantum protections, one of the biggest deployments of the future-resistant encryption technology to date. Billions…